Improvement in straw-cutters



Z Sheets SheetZ. J. LAUGHLIN. STRAW-CUTT'ER.

No.180,04Z. Patgnted Ju1y18, 1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN LAUGHLIN, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA.

, IMPROVEMENT IN STRAW-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,042, dated July 18, 1876; application filed May 24, 1876.

-. To all whom it may concern:

ence marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement upon the straw-cutter as patented to me March 31, 1868, No. 76,209; and it consists in anovel, substantial, and economical mode of supporting and bracing the feedsbox of the machine, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In'order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to makeand use the same, I will now proceed to more fully describe it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view with a part of the feed box or trough broken away, showing the bracesthereunder. Fig. 2 represents the form of metallic pins I prefer to use in connecting the parts together. 3 representsa front view of the straw-cutter.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a frame for a cutting-box, such as I have already represented in a former patent, having two frames, 0 U, which carry knivesG H, and having levers D E F, which are so connected to these frames thatthey operate them in different or opposite directions simultaneously. K represents the ,rear standard, which supports the rear end of the box. I I represent two braces, which, at their rear ends, are made fast to the sides of the standard tioned. 7

By this mode of bracing, the box is held firmly from any lengthwise movement or racking, and I an] enabled thus to use only one foot or support, thus making a cheaper and better-braced, and of course stronger, box

than heretofore used. r

The detachable parts of my machine are preferably connected by the pinsM M, of the form shown in Fig. 2, which pins'are held'to thetrame-work by straps a. Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby LettersPatent, is-

The teed-trol'igh ot' a straw-cutter, supported at its rear end by the single upright K, and braced to the framework and trough by the horizontal bar L, the two inclined braces I I, and the short brace J, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purposes set forth. I

Iii testimony that. I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of April, 1876.

1 JOHN LAUGHLIN. Witnesses:

JOHN H. CANNES, M. L. ST0WELL. 

